As many of you are probably aware, a lot of Ubiquiti devices running old firmware are under a new wave of attack taking advantage of an old vulnerability that was fixed a year ago. In response to this latest wave of problems for some WISPs, Ubiquiti have thoughtfully emailed everyone on their …
Read More »HowTo: MikroTik Secure VPN Part 1.5 MikroTik to MikroTik with IPSec
This is a short HowTo which will cover the set-up of Mikrotik to Mikrotik VPN but secured with IPsec. The use of IPsec can be very CPU intensive and it is recommended that the VPN server be set up on a Mikrotik which supports hardware based AES/IPsec encryption such as …
Read More »New UAP AC Range
The UAP-AC-Lite The AC-Lite is the entry-level product for Ubiquiti’s new range of AC access points. As the name suggests it is both the smallest and lightest of the UAPs measuring just 160 x 160 x 31.45 mm and weighing in at 170g (185g with the mounting kit). It boasts …
Read More »Ubiquiti NEXT Announcements
The Ubiquiti NEXT Conference has concluded in Wynn, Las Vegas with a host of new products and upgrades for existing UBNT products. Ubqiuti’s conference has 4 main Themes, Spectrum Utilisation, Network Management, Tower Defensibility and WISP Market expansion. Each will be outlined below. Spectrum Utilisation In this section UBNT announced …
Read More »Ubiquiti UniFi UAP-AC-LITE and UAP-AC-LR now in stock
Introducing the new UniFi AC APs The UniFi AC Lite AP features a cleaner design in a reduced footprint – half the size compared to the standard UniFi AP. Innovative Antenna Design The innovative antenna design provides a long-range, symmetrical-link coverage area, and the antenna gain of the UniFi AC …
Read More »News: Netonix range of intelligent PoE switches now in stock
We’ve recently received a delivery of Netonix switches. We thought we would blog about how amazing these things are, except one of our customers, Wessex Internet beat us to it! If like those guys, you’re running your own WISP and need to power Ubiquiti or MikroTik radios, we have always advocated using …
Read More »HowTo: Significantly improve slow throughput on EdgeRouter Lite PPPoE
When you add some rules into the firewall, it can be the case that Hardware Offloading is disabled without your knowledge! Before we re-enabled Hardware Offloading on the PPPoE client it was only able to handle about 140-150Mbps of throughput. After we re-enabled it, the throughput went up to 296Mbps on …
Read More »News: Ubiquiti Fixes HTTP(S) vulnerability
Ubiquiti released new firmware three weeks ago for their AirMax and AirFiber radios to fix a serious vulnerability that allowed unauthenticated users to gain access. In theory no one except internal support staff should be able to get access to any interface of your internal radio network. But just in case any one …
Read More »News: MikroTik RouterOS 6.28 released
MikroTik have announced the availability of RouterOS v6.28 Here is the changelog: email – increase server greeting timeout to 60s lte – ZTE MF823 may loose configuration userman – update paypal root certificate timezone – updated timezone information to 2015b release cm2 – fixed capsman v2 100% CPU and other …
Read More »HowTo: Updating the LiniTX Controller and Unifi Software
The LinITX embedded controller has proven popular since its launch with many units sold. All feedback has been taken on board and alterations have been made to the embedded OS and configuration to make the controller as easy to use as possible. All new controllers purchased in 2015 will …
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